A person planting a native seedling in a crevice garden in Littleton. — Photos: AP
When Lena Astilli first bought her home outside of Denver, Colorado in the United States, she had no interest in matching the wall-to-wall green lawns that dominated her block.
She wanted native plants – the kind she remembered and loved as a child in New Mexico, that require far less water and have far more to offer insects and birds that are in decline.
